Hi, I want to implement a customer authentication for node red that uses a http header set by a reverse proxy. After several time searching in the internet, I was still unable to find any hint that pointed me in the right direction. Can you help me? How can I access the http header variables (e.g…

Access to header variables in node red editor for authentication

knolleary 16 February 2020 17:54 2

Short answer: The Auth plugin api doesn't provide a way for it to access the headers. So it isn't possible to do it today.

This has come up a few times recently. There is some work going on to extend what is possible to do with Auth plugins. It doesn't currently address this particular scenario, but perhaps it should.

See my comments here Use Admin API with adminAuth type strategy

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Access to header variables in node red editor for authentication

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